Anyone get the newspaper delivered to them?

[ultrarunner]

Having the paper delivered each morning has helped mom be organized as her memory fails... for years she would keep it out to make sure what day it is.

Now... it is not helping so much but I still keep home delivery... after all Dad started delivering that paper in 1937...

 

[dmccarty]

Good point. Actually, since putting most of my documents on my iPhone, I can probably just let him use my iPad.

Well, there you go. Assuming he is still sharp enough at that age to operate it. Our recently deceased MIL, could not. But she had dementia. I hope your dad is doing well.

The two big advantages of using a tablet or computer to read magazines, books, etc, is the back lighting and being able to enlarge the text either through a large font or by expanding the view. These are the big reasons I don't want paper magazines and newspapers anymore. Books depend on the subject. Some I want in physical form and others not so much.

The tablet just makes is soooo much easier to read.

Later,
Dan

 

[goeduck]

That's another dying industry.... paper mills.

Exactly. Even though we had a bunch of them around here and I worked in them.... good riddance. Stinky, and polluting. Recycled paper is much better with minimal new paper... and now if we could just get rid of junk mail...

 

[Sigarms]

Just an update...

Couple of months ago left the house and driving up the road, saw a paper being delivered to my neighbors driveway EARLY in the morning, and made a note to myself to ask them about it.

Last month, driving up the road, saw the couple sitting on their porch and stopped in to talk to them about the paper (running to the transfer station aka ""dump", and ended up talking with them close to 90 minutes LOL).

Turns out they had the paper delivered for 40 years to their house, and last year (2018) was the worst service they had ever gotten, and called numerous times becaue they were thinking of dropping the paper. They told me things were "back to normal" after last year and they have a new driver, no complaints.

I called the paper on a Saturday to renew it for another year (since apparently things have gotten better), had the paper the NEXT day before 0800.

For the last month, paper has been in the driveway when the boys walk out to the bus stop, before 0700.

1 year subscription costs me around $225. Picking it up in town is $2.12 per Mon-Sat paper and like $3.25 for Sunday paper. I'm going to catch the newspaper deliver driver some money and tell him if he's still delivering at Christmas time, he will be getting a nice Christmas bonus from me.

Ironcially enough, it now seems instead of calling Winston Salem to resolve issues, we now talk to someone in Oklahoma. Go figure.

 

[k0ua]

It was a happy day when we were able to stop the newspaper delivery because the mother in law was no longer with us. I can't imagine wanting a newspaper delivered to your home. We threw the phone books in the trash yesterday too, that the phone company insists on delivering to us. Haven't opened one of those stupid things in years either. When I worked at Windstream (local phone company in Harrison Ar.) They always came by and delivered a book to our desks. I threw it in a drawer usually on top of the last years booK I didn't use either.

Why would anyone want a phone book is beyond me also. I suppose if someone dropped off a buggy whip, I could maybe try to repurpose it into something else, maybe an antenna support or something, but it makes about as much sense to me as a newspaper or phone book. It is 2019 after all, and darn soon to be 2020. Holy cow. A newspaper.. SMH.

 

[Sigarms]

It was a happy day when we were able to stop the newspaper delivery because the mother in law was no longer with us. I can't imagine wanting a newspaper delivered to your home. We threw the phone books in the trash yesterday too, that the phone company insists on delivering to us. Haven't opened one of those stupid things in years either. When I worked at Windstream (local phone company in Harrison Ar.) They always came by and delivered a book to our desks. I threw it in a drawer usually on top of the last years booK I didn't use either.

If you can pay $200 or so bucks a year to have a newspaper delivered to your home instead of paying over $800 a year by taking time and gas to go up to pick one up in town, makes sense to me to have it delivered

Personally, I like picking up the paper and reading it (particularly for local stories) than reading about news on a electronic device.

 

[dougtrr2]

I prefer a hardcopy paper to electronic but will be going on-line at the end of this subscription. The price for delivery has just gotten way too high and the service is poor. I live out in the country and if they forget me I only get a credit, no one comes out to correct the error. The final straw was when they missed my Sunday delivery and when I called customer service in Denver, (I live near Omaha), they kept insisting that delivery would be late because of the weather. I kept telling them it is bright and sunny out my window. They were no help and kept parroting the same lines.

Doug in SW IA

 

[MossRoad]

Just an update...

Couple of months ago left the house and driving up the road, saw a paper being delivered to my neighbors driveway EARLY in the morning, and made a note to myself to ask them about it.

Last month, driving up the road, saw the couple sitting on their porch and stopped in to talk to them about the paper (running to the transfer station aka ""dump", and ended up talking with them close to 90 minutes LOL).

Turns out they had the paper delivered for 40 years to their house, and last year (2018) was the worst service they had ever gotten, and called numerous times becaue they were thinking of dropping the paper. They told me things were "back to normal" after last year and they have a new driver, no complaints.

I called the paper on a Saturday to renew it for another year (since apparently things have gotten better), had the paper the NEXT day before 0800.

For the last month, paper has been in the driveway when the boys walk out to the bus stop, before 0700.

1 year subscription costs me around $225. Picking it up in town is $2.12 per Mon-Sat paper and like $3.25 for Sunday paper. I'm going to catch the newspaper deliver driver some money and tell him if he's still delivering at Christmas time, he will be getting a nice Christmas bonus from me.

Ironcially enough, it now seems instead of calling Winston Salem to resolve issues, we now talk to someone in Oklahoma. Go figure.

I get mine delivered for 50 cents a week....


I retired from a newspaper. Part of my retirement benefits. :laughing:

For you younguns... a newspaper is a primitive form of mass communications. And retirement benefits are an archaic form of compensation in return for many years of service to an employer.

 

[Rebeldad1]

we get a every Wednesday East County paper delivered by the mailman. cost was $25.00 for the year
Interesting reading over morning coffee. Some garage sales and makes Great poo paper for the ferrets!

 

[MossRoad]

When my wife and I got married, we started getting the newspaper. I always told her I'd give any carrier a big Christmas bonus if they stayed for 1 year. I stopped counting at 17 carriers in 11 years. The problem back then was that kids were carriers and were expected to collect subscription money. Deadbeat customers soured many a kid to the newspaper delivery business. That, and robbery. The kids got beat up for their money fairly often. Once papers started going PBM (pay by mail), things got a little better for the carriers.

When our local newspaper switched from evening paper to morning paper 7 days a week, they lost all the kid carriers, as there was not enough time to deliver the paper in the morning before the 7am deadline, it was too dark for kids to be walking around in the morning, etc... people were outraged that kids would lose their delivery jobs, however, there were only about a couple dozen that had been with the paper for more than a year out of about 500 carriers.

When I started at the newspaper in the mid 80's, they had over 140,000 weekend subscribers, plus thousands of vending machine sales, and about 112,000 daily circulation. By the time I left in 2017, they were down to under 40,000 weekends.